# No Good Thing Will He Withhold

Key Passage: Psalm 84:11
Date: June 7, 2024

All right, good morning. It’s really good to be here. I mean that. I really do. I’ve missed it. It’s been about a month and a half or so.

I started even thinking about this last week when we did the drive-in service. You know, I don’t know about you all, but when we pulled in, it had a different feeling. It felt good. We even talked about it all the way home how it just kind of brightened the day, coming to church. That got me thinking when the pastor asked me to do my testimony. I wanted to give kind of a testimony on church, and not just church, but our church specifically, and what it means to me.

We come here, I think we’d all agree on that, for preaching. And praise the Lord, we got a great church for that. We have a pastor and an assistant pastor that preach the word and preach the right word. That’s something I don’t take for granted.

But it goes beyond that to me. I think of kids and how us as a church family influence kids, and how important that is. That means a lot to me. I have a daughter. I remember when she was real little, just seeing people in here influence her so well. I remember her being so small, Tanya Young and others taking her under their wing and being so good to her and other kids too. It’s so important.

Then as she got older, she got Miss Teresa’s class. Miss Teresa was so good with those girls. You see it today still—girls that were in there years ago still hang out with Miss Teresa today, and that means a lot to me.

Then you think of the teens. I can look at it from two angles myself. When I was a teenager, there were hardly a few of us in our church, but what few of us was there, we all kind of went the wrong way. We didn’t have a teen program. This church does, and it has a great one. I praise the Lord for it. I think of since I’ve been here, I think of Brother Bruce, Brother Keith, Brother Anthony, Brother John, their wives. They do such a great job with the teens, and I’m thankful for that. I appreciate that.

Even the adults, whether we know it or not, we influence people and make people’s days better. Just for me personally, I remember walking in on some Wednesday nights just after working 12, 13 hours, just completely mentally and physically exhausted. I remember there’d be times when Ms. Mary Dauph would greet me in the doorway and give me a hug, and that just made my day a little better. Her coming in and seeing smiling faces in here, maybe Brother Larry down here in the front, shake my hand with a smile on his face. That meant a lot to me, and I’m appreciative for that.

The adult teachers, that means so much too. We talk about the importance for kids, but I think the importance—it’s important for adults too. How that just, it doesn’t only teach us information that helps change our lives. I remember the Foundations class here, Pastor teaching us all the fundamentals, and that’s more than knowledge that changes people’s lives. It really does.

I remember sitting for years across the way in Brother Kevin’s couples class, and that’s important. Teachers may not think, you’re thinking maybe this lesson wasn’t that good today, or maybe there are only so many in here, but it really changes lives. I remember sitting in there many of times thinking, “That’s such a good influence. I hope one day I can be as good a Christian, good as a man, good as a husband, good as a father as Brother Kevin.” And that means a lot to me, and I appreciate that.

So my testimony this morning, I just wanted to give a little testimony about a church, but this church in particular, of how good it is for people. In the last month and a half, not having it, I directly felt that. YouTube is great. The internet’s wonderful, a great tool when used properly. But nothing beats being here in a church family. When it’s appropriate for everyone and it’s the right time for everyone, I can’t wait to see everyone back and see even more people come than before. Thank you.

Turn your Bibles, if you would, to Psalms 84 and verse number 11. Psalms 84 and verse number 11 of God’s Word.

Somebody said that last week, Pastor was out in the cold, and we’re in a warm car. They said that was payback for all the other services where they were cold and I wasn’t. I said, well, it was about 47. If I can drop it to 47, we’ll do that deal right there. But you notice Brother Kevin is the one turning it on back there. You notice I don’t have a part of it right there so you can get him next time on it. And I’m teasing. Psalm 84, verse number 11.

Is anybody glad to be back in church this morning? Anybody like that? Amen. I’m too. Praise the Lord for it. I say that, I don’t want to be antagonistic against those online because many of them would be here if they could. I understand that. I appreciate them being good about it all. It is a blessing. It just meant a lot to me to be going back in the right direction. I like that. Praise the Lord for it. We’re headed down the right path. That’s a great, great thing.

Psalms 84, verse number 11 is just a great, great verse. My wife is redoing our kitchen. I’ve heard so many husbands say during this time, “Man, my wife has got to be able to get back to work because we’ve got so many home projects going right now.” I’ve heard that from multiple husbands. Some are shaking their heads even now agreeing with me on that. My wife did pretty much all the work so far. She’s got a few things she’s kind of waiting on before.

We used to have a little plaque on our wall there in the kitchen that had the bottom part of this verse—the part we’re focusing on. It’s a great verse, a great verse to memorize. Psalm 84 and verse number 11.

Would you please stand as it reads God’s Word together? Would you do so this morning? Psalm 84 and verse number 11. And the Bible says, “For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord will give grace and glory; no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”

Would you read that last part starting with “No good”? Would you read that last part with me, please? All of us read that last part together. Here we go: “No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”

Would you do it one more time? Such a great, great promise from God’s Word. Here we go: “No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”

Let’s go to the Lord in prayer, would you please? Father, Lord, it’s just so good to be back under the roof with so many. Lord, we miss the preaching, being in person for it, and just the fellowship, seeing one another. Lord, it’s such a sweet thing. Thank you that we can have some. Bless those that cannot. Lord, all of us this morning, would you speak to our hearts what we need from you? And, Lord, give us something. Speak to our not just our head, Lord, but our heart. And, Lord, we’ll thank you for what you do, Father. We do ask for this in Jesus’ name, so we’re asking in faith for it. In Jesus’ name, amen.

Years ago, our kids were just babies pretty much. We moved back to Indiana. We had lived there before; I’d graduated Bible college up there. We had moved and were youth pastors and whatnot, and we decided it was God’s will for us to move back. When we moved back, I wanted to get a good job because we had some debt. We wanted to get our debt all paid off. We were thinking maybe the Lord was leading us to take a church, start a church, and we didn’t want any debt. So we wanted to get a good job.

We moved up, and there was a new company just starting up, and they were going to pay very, very good money. They needed welders and fitters and whatnot, and I did both of those. It just seemed like great money. I’m talking good money for that type. Wow, this is amazing. Everything just seemed really good.

Because it was a new company, they weren’t going to offer insurance for six months, and then once you get on it, 30 days. So really, seven months. But just a great paying job. You ever see that? They tell you how much you’re going to make, and you’re like, “Cha-ching, that sounds good to me.” That’s kind of where I was at. Whew, that sounds good.

You had to go up to Chicago, Northwest Indiana, take some tests. I went to Chicago, took the test, and they were very favorable. I remember the words they said—I can’t remember if it was the foreman or the manager—he said, “He’s going to be very pleased with this. Man, everything’s looking great.” I thought, “Man, we’re going to get our debt paid off. We’re going to have everything just right. God’s in this thing,” is what I was thinking. They said, “We’ll call you. They’ll like it. Everything looks great. We’ll call you.”

Well, we waited, waited. No call. After a while, you’re like, “Man, I need to get a job soon. A lot going out, nothing coming in. This is not good.” I mean, it’s just not a happy camper. And no call. Finally, I said, “I’m going to call them.” So I called, got a hold of a lady, and honestly, she was just very, very rude. She let me know in certain terms I didn’t get a job there. To this day, I still don’t know why. Just no job.

Well, dirty big or back of the slatter—I mean, this is not good. My family’s up here, and I don’t have a job. No money going out, no money coming in. Things are not good. So I went back to one of my old jobs and applied. It was a good job; they hired me. All things just kind of took off where it was before when I worked it before. Got insurance 30 days and all those things.

Maybe a month or so later, my wife started having major medical issues. You know how it is? The tests—that test costs $5,000. What? I can think of a better way to test them than that. All the tests and eventually surgery. Any surgery nowadays costs thousands of dollars. I can’t remember how much the surgery cost. It’s been 20-something years ago, and I’ve got maybe $35,000, $40,000 in my head. I’m not sure how much the surgery was.

But here’s the thing: If I’d have gotten the job I wanted, no insurance. I was trying to get out of debt. If I’d have got the job I wanted, I’d have been about at least $40,000 more in debt. Y’all were with me out there?

Now, here’s my thing: We don’t always know what the good thing is. Did you read that in that passage right there? “No good thing.” You don’t always know what the good thing is. Sometimes I think the thing is so good, boy, it wouldn’t have been good for me to have that job. Sure wouldn’t have been debt-free when it came time to start the church, that’s for sure.

Now, friend, this saying, he says, “No good thing will he withhold.” You’ve got to trust God. He knows what’s good.

You talk to every little child in the world, and you offer them a bag of lollipops, and they think every one of them is good, amen? This isn’t just a John thing; this is a John and Sarah thing. They’d have about four of them, five of them, ten of them in their mouth at one time if you gave them the whole bag. If you give them a pack of gum when they’re little, they’re going to have the whole pack of gum. You ever see a little child trying to chew about ten pieces in the mouth? Can you blow a bubble? They’re doing good just to chew the gum.

I’m saying, hey, as children, we don’t always know what’s good for us. We sure think we do. It’s amazing what the Bible says in Isaiah 55:8, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, than my thoughts than your thoughts.” As far as the heaven is above the earth.

Now, friend, I’m just saying, I’m always amazed. My wife had cancer, oh, it’s been nine, ten years ago now. If you ask her, she wouldn’t have said it at the time, but now if you ask her what’s one of the best things ever happened to you, she’d say, “Cancer.” We never dreamed it’d be like that at the time. But I’m saying, friend, you and I, we don’t know what’s good for us all the time. We just get so opinionated. God knows. God knows.

Isn’t it interesting the first part of the verse? “For the Lord God is a sun and shield.” A sun that’s always shining, and sometimes a good thing is God gives you something. God says, like the sun, it’s good for me to give. And it’s a shield. Sometimes he shields you from giving you the things you want because he knows it’s best for you not to get those things. “No good thing.”

“No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.” I think about a dear relative of mine, 30-something years ago plus, won a lawsuit for over a million dollars. That’s a lot of money. Today, it was even a lot more money back then. I’m not sure, a million and a half or something. Can I say—and I love them, I love them—but 30-something years later, and I know their children and how their children and their family turned out, whether economically now and all these things, can I say, I don’t know that that million and a half was such a good thing?

You understand what I’m saying? And I say that of a lot of them, and there are people I pray for and care about, but I’m just saying for him, be so careful. When God says, “No good thing will I withhold,” just let God decide what’s good. He knows.

What an amazing thing, “No good thing.” I couldn’t help but think about Fanny Crosby. Six-week-old little girl, just a baby, had an eye infection, and wasn’t sure what to do about it. The doctor came in, and the doctor gave a medicine to put in their eyes. Lo and behold, it wasn’t the right medicine, and that medicine caused her to be blind for life. Oh, sure, it would be hard to see that as a good thing.

And yet Fanny Crosby, in her blindness, God developed a sight in her that was beyond the majority of the population of the world. God used her to be such a great songwriter. She drew so close to God in her lifelong blindness. Blind from six weeks old, Fanny Crosby as an adult, she wrote this: She said, “It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life. I thank him for the dispensation. If perfect earthly sight were offered me tomorrow, I would not accept it. I might not have sung hymns to the praise of God, and I had been distracted by the beautiful and interesting things about me.”

She goes on to say, “If I had a choice, I would still choose to remain blind, for when I die, the first face I will ever see will be the face of my blessed Savior.” How was God’s plan? It was a good thing. Eight thousand songs she wrote. Many of the songs that are in our hymn book, “Blessed Assurance,” Fanny Crosby wrote that. “Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior, Hear My Humble Cry.” Last week we talked about John Rice’s young man in a revival, and some people getting saved, and they sang that song, and that song spoke to his heart, and he said, “Hey, Lord, don’t pass me by. I need to get right with you.” John Rice’s mother had ever been the great man of God he was if it wasn’t for Fanny Crosby that wrote that song. God knows what’s good.

“No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.” I don’t always understand it, but I don’t have to understand it. I trust him.

Now, just a couple of things. We want to talk about “no good thing.” Good thing, all right? You got that? Do you got the good thing in there? Are you ready to move to the next one? You all out there? Amen? I believe y’all are used to watching YouTube. On YouTube, you don’t have to respond, do you? You just sit there and eat your popcorn and Cheetos, you know? Somebody—Brother George, Miss Joyce was telling him he was eating during church last week or the week before. Can you believe that? But you can respond here, amen. And we can’t bring popcorn in here, all right? Unless you share with the preacher, then you can do that. But “no good thing,” no good thing. That’s the first thing.

Here’s the second thing. Let’s talk about here, this word that God puts in there, “no good thing.” Would you look at it? Let’s look at it again, last part of verse number 11. What a great promise. Just amazing. “No good thing.” You’re there with me? “No good thing.”

Will he—what’s the next word? “Withhold from them that walk uprightly.” It’s interesting why God used or chose the word withhold. “No good thing will he withhold.” Makes me think about the sun. He never withholds the sun from us. It’s always shining. Sometimes clouds are between us and the sun, but it’s always shining. “No good thing will he withhold.” Can I just say this? You can trust him. He doesn’t withhold from his children that are living for him. He doesn’t hold back.

Can I say this? God’s not playing a weird, psycho kind of game with you trying to withhold good things from you. “No good thing will he withhold.” Now, people are messed up, but God’s got his kingdom rules overall, and God’s not playing some weird kind of game. Can I say this, friend? If you want to do God’s will, he’ll guide you. And sometimes you say, “Well, I can’t find God.” God—you just keep seeking God, you’ll be there. You can trust him. He’s a trustworthy God. God’s promises—hey, I won’t withhold good things from them that will always fulfill his word. You can rest in that.

Sometimes you just feel like everything’s kind of out of balance and catawampus—that’s one of those Greek words, you know—and you feel like it’s just all out of sorts, and you don’t know which way is up and down. Can I just say you can trust him? “No good thing will he withhold.”

I talked to some precious people texting, I think it was last night, a husband and wife, both laid off one night or the other. Such a tough thing. So many are going through tough times during this time in so many different situations. Can I just say when everything just seems all locked out, if you will, he can trust him? “No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”

Withholding. God said, “No, I won’t do that.” Can I say this about this withholding? It does not say, “No good thing will he not give.” No, he says, “No good thing will he withhold.” You ever play that game with your kids? I don’t do it with my kids nowadays; they’re too big. But I’m not trying to say anything about Brother John. But you ever play a game when they’re little, and you got a piece of candy, and you’re going to give it to them, but you won’t just play a game with a little bit? So you put it in your hand—hopefully, it’s not a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup, because you’re probably going to crush it if you put it in there—and they got to cut it and pry it out of your hand.

They’re just trying to get one finger in there. Emily, I see you looking over, Brother John. Did you and your dad used to do that? Do you still do that? No, you’ll break his finger. That’s what happened to my fingers. I’ll tell you what, now, yeah. And they just try to get, and if they can get just one of your fingers, and you know, it’s bad. They get one of your fingers, and then they’ll get both hands on that one finger. Sarah used to do that. Then they’ll get their foot up there. They’ve got one finger. You’re like, “This is not fair. You’ve got two hands, you’ve got your foot to pry, and I only got one finger.”

But we used to do that so often. I kind of look back with joy on that. And that’s what God said: He won’t withhold. But it begs to offer a little bit. Have you been trying to get anything from God? Have you been praying? Have you been seeking the blessings? I wonder how many things God said, “I’d like for you to have.” I mean, he did say in his Word, “You have not because you ask not.” I mean, he said in Matthew 7:11, he said he gives good things to them that ask.

I wonder how many things God said, “I’d like for you to have that,” but I’ve been waiting for you. I won’t withhold it, but I’m waiting for someone to get along in the prayer closet and seek me and ask him. Maybe it is during this time God says, “I would love to bring revival.” It may be a great revival, or a revival that God would like to bring in the last days. And God said, “I’d like to bring revival,” but no people—not many people—have my finger pulling on it, and nobody’s seeking for it, nobody’s praying about it, nobody’s asking.

Maybe it’s a lost loved one, a neighbor down the street, and God would love to get a hold of their heart and convict and draw of him, but it’s been a long time since someone prayed about their salvation. Friend, “No good thing will he withhold.” Maybe it’s that wayward grandchild, that wayward child, and somebody’s going to have to spend the time and seek and ask and beg and knock and say, “Lord, would you get a hold of the heart?” Maybe in your marriage, maybe in your finances, maybe overcoming sin in your life. But he said, “I won’t withhold it,” but it begs to offer. Somebody’s got to go ask for that. “No good thing will he withhold.”

When’s the last time we just spent a long time, “Lord, would you work?” By the way, that’s James 4:2: “You have not because you ask not.” The next verse says, “You have not because you ask not.” So often, you never know you’re asking them is because you’re not asking enough. So often when I start asking, that’s when the Spirit of God comes in our prayer partner and says, “Hey, you’re not right there,” and he makes an adjustment in your heart, and it shows you what to pray about. But you never get that right because you never start off just asking.

Withhold. God says, “I won’t withhold it. I want you to have it.” You know, back in the day they used to call it praying through. Have you ever heard that term, “praying through”? You may hear it some. Back those old-timers, “How’d that happen?” “We prayed through.” We prayed until we knew when we left that prayer closet, wherever it may be, we knew God had heard us. Have you ever prayed through about something? Have you ever just sought God and begged and pleaded about God? You know, great things happen in the kingdom of heaven, in God’s kingdom, not because we’re all that, because someone’s along getting hold of God. Heaven’s arm and hand moves when God’s people pray. “No good thing will he withhold.”

I thought about Elijah over there. Oh, Elijah. I got to move that candy out of the way because I’ve seen a couple of the ladies; they’ve been staring at that candy, and now, you know, a couple of the men were going to come get it for the wives, you know. So I’ve got to take it down. I thought about Elijah. God had stopped the rain, and Elijah went up on Mount Carmel. They said, “No, Lord, you got to send the rain. I told the old king there’s going to be rain, and God, you got to send the rain.”

He sent a servant out. “Is there any clouds?” No. Elijah kept praying, kept praying, “Lord, would you send the rain? Would you send some rain?” And the servant goes out and he looked. No, nothing. Come back. Elijah just prayed, kept praying, kept praying. “No good thing will I withhold.” By the way, you keep praying until God either changes your heart or gives you what you want.

He just kept praying. Sent the servant out again. “Anything?” No. “Anything?” Seven times. Finally, that seventh time that man went out and he said, “Oh, see a cloud? See a cloud about the size of a man’s hand.” And I just said, “Oh, that’s it. God’s heard my prayer.” Now, when’s the last time you just kept praying until God did something? Seven times, a number of completion. You just pray until God said, “All right, I’ve heard your prayer. I’m not going to withhold.”

You’ve been trying to get anything out of God? You’ve been seeking for something from God? Maybe your heart needs to be cleansed from bitterness or from the old feelings. You’ve been seeking God over that? When’s the last time you prayed through?

I thought about that early church over there in the book of Acts, the 120 people in the upper room there. And they prayed a 10-day prayer meeting. Now, I don’t know if at nighttime they went home and slept in their own house and came back. It seemed that some of the apostles were there all the time, maybe praying, somebody praying 24/7. I’m not sure exactly, but attend their prayer meeting. And yet then the old windows of heaven opened up, but God poured down his power. And the day of Pentecost, 3,000 saved and baptized and 5,000 later on and so on and so on. Somebody praying. Oh, friend, God said, “I won’t withhold.” Have we been going to God?

I think of recently, God said, “Paul, just seemed like you’re getting so caught up on all the different dynamics and the injustice and all these different things. Why don’t you get caught up in revival?” Friend, it may be, it may be if God’s people just get just see kibble and see revival, it may be the time. “No good thing.” “No good thing.”

You know, I used to play the game with the kids. I used to do that. I quit, you know, after the one accident. But I used to do that, you know. And I always intended on giving them that. I wouldn’t have started the game if it didn’t intend to give it to them. God, he’d like for us to have so much. “No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”

Oh, John Rice used to talk about a dream he had, or he had talked about it; he wrote about it. He said he went to heaven, and he’s walking down, and as he was walking down, big, huge buildings had a name on it—Philip or this, that other, you know—and came across a big, huge building, and it said, “John Rice.” He said, “What’s that?” He said, “That’s all the things I wanted to give you. I had it prepared ready out in the warehouse for you, but you never asked for it.” Yeah. “No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”

Now, we talked about “good thing.” Then we talked about “withhold.” Let’s get one more thing, one more word in here, and we’re done for the day. Look back over there, verse number 11, if you would. Psalm 84. Look at verse number 11, that last part. He says, “No good thing will he withhold from them that walk.” What’s that last word? “Uprightly.”

Can I just—can I just say a couple of things about that last word there? You say, “No, I want to go home. Tough. You’re going to listen to you.” Amen. Let’s walk uprightly. First of all, that would be being saved. Religion will teach you to just seek to be better, better, better. But the Bible and the Holy Spirit and the Lord will teach you, realize you’re never good enough. You depend on Jesus’ righteousness—salvation, friend. It doesn’t matter how morally good I am and how good I look to anybody else. If I don’t have the blood of Jesus Christ on my account, I will not be walking uprightly to God. He’ll see through my facade, and he’ll know that I’m a sinner like everybody else. If I’m going to be upright before God, first of all, I must be saved. I must be a child of God. There must be a time when I went to the Lord and said, “Oh, my goodness, Lord, I cannot trust in my righteousness. I’m a sinner. Jesus, I want to ask you, would you save me?” If I’m going to be upright, I’ve got to be saved.

Then can I say this? Maybe in order for me to get these good things, I need to get right with God. Oh, how many times I went to the Lord and said, “Lord, would you forgive me one more time? I’m so sorry. Just one more time.” God’s always said yes. I will, always, every time. Friend, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. And I must continually be going to him, “Lord, I’m so sorry, would you cleanse me?” And he does always. He’s faithful and just. Yeah.

To be upright, it must be a daily thing. That’s what Jesus told us in what we call the Lord’s Prayer: “Forgive us our sins, our debts. We forgive our debtors.” Hey, that was to be a daily thing. That’s why he said, “Give us this day our daily bread.” All of us daily have to get things right with God. If I’m going to walk uprightly, I must—maybe there’s some things I need to get right with God.

I love the story of the prodigal child, and he got away, and he’s coming back, you know the story. He’d been out living a life of sin and shame and wreck, and he’s coming back, and the dad saw him afar off and had compassion on him, and he ran. You won’t very often find a picture of the Savior, of the Lord, running in the Bible, but you find it there. God Almighty running to a sinner. It’s amazing. That’s what our picture is. And one of his children said, “Lord, I want to come back right. I want to get back close to you, Lord, and I have not been what I ought to be.” And God, he’s waiting for that, and he runs, if you will, to them. Has compassion on them.

Friend, if I’m going to be walking uprightly, I must be living right with God and close to God, daily confession before God.

One last thought on this verse here, and we’re done. Did you notice this? That word right before the end: “No good thing will he withhold from them that…” What’s that next word? “Are you walking?” You say, “What do you mean by that? No, I’ve not been walking in the nighttime. I’m eating at the nighttime. I don’t need to walk.” What do you mean by “them that are walking”? Are you doing anything for the Lord?

Now I understand it’s a little bit different day and time. It’s a little bit hard, if you will, in some ways to do some of the typical things we think of serving the Lord. But are you serving him in some ways? Are you walking for the Lord? “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord.” Are you stepping? Are you serving him? Are you doing something? Are you walking with him in his Word? Are you walking with him in the prayer closet? Are you? Oh, praise the Lord, you’re able to be somewhere in the church house. Are you being on church house or on YouTube? Are you walking? Are you doing something for the Lord?

It was such a blessing to me. I stopped at the gas station the other day, and I’m not saying I was just super spiritual, but I got out to pump the gas, and I saw someone across the pump there, and the Holy Spirit said, “Hey, you ought to give a tract,” so I did. And he said it was a Christian soul, and I went inside. You ever—you ever not get a receipt? You got to get a receipt. Dirty, pick a backer’s ladder, we’ve got to go in there and get a receipt. Some of them said, “Amen to that.” So I had to go in there and get a receipt, and I gave them a tract. And when I came back out, somebody else was across the gas pump, so I gave them a tract.

But I tell you what, it did something to me. I needed that. It’s been a while since it’s just been able to witness to someone. I got to witness to some of them, and I was shocked at myself when I got back in my car. I was like, “Man, that did something for me. It helped me.” Are you walking? Walk uprightly. Are you serving and doing whatever, wherever you are, doing what you can for the Lord? “No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.” What a promise. What a promise.

“Good thing.” “Good thing.” It’s amazing so often down the road we look back at the thing we thought, “Oh, that’s good.” That’s good. It may be, it may be this time in our nation, in our country, in our lives, we heed the Lord and seek the Lord and keep trying to get what he’s trying to do in your life, and you’re after that, trying to get it out of his hand, if you will, and we keep serving God in whatever way we can. It may be that we look back and say, “You know, that was a good thing.” “No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”

Would you bow your heads, if you would, please? Would you bow your heads? Our heads are bowed, eyes are closed. You’re there and you say, “You know what? I need to trust that he knows what’s good in my life. I need to trust him.” I’m not saying it’s always pleasant at that moment. Oh no. Each individual thinks all things work together. But I need to trust him. And God spoke to my heart, “I need to trust him. He knows what’s good for my life.” And God spoke to my heart about that. I need to trust him about those good things. That’s you this morning, wherever you may be, here in the auditorium or elsewhere. You slip your hand up, preacher. “I need to trust the Lord on that.” God bless you. God bless you. Oh, me too. So many things not pleasant to me, but I need to trust him. I need to trust him. “No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”

Thank you so much. Wherever you are, thank you so much for letting the Lord work in your heart.

Maybe you hear this morning, you say, “Preacher, I need to be going to God in prayer, seeking for those good things. I need to be asking. I need to go to my dad, my heavenly Father, and if you will, just try to pry fingers off.” And God spoke to my heart about that. I need to be busy in the prayer closet. Maybe there’s a certain thing. I need to get back to the saying of just the prayer closet, seeking God and praying earnest, the earnest, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. God spoke to my heart about that. I need to get back to the prayer closet and get a heart again for the Lord. God spoke to me about that this morning. You slip your hand up, preacher, “That’s me.” God spoke to my heart about that. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you, my friend, for staying in there, fighting the good fight. God bless you. Thank you so much.

You put your hands down now wherever you are. Maybe you hear this morning or online this morning and say, “Preacher, I can’t be upright. I can’t be walking upright because there’s never been saved. Now I’m standing in my own righteousness, and I know that that won’t stand before God. And I need to be saved, and I need to become born again. I need to trust Jesus alone as my Savior.” And God spoke to my heart about that. “I want to trust Jesus Christ to be my Savior.” Not saved and need to trust him as my Savior. Would there be anyone like that, whether it be online or in person here? “Preacher, I don’t know that I’m saved.” If that’s you, just let your hand up wherever you may be.

Friend, God loves you. Jesus shed his blood on the cross of Calvary for you. He loved you. He’d save you. Right where you are, would you go to him? You’re not as a child, you’re not saved. And when you say, “Oh, Lord, I don’t trust in my righteousness. I’m a sinner. Jesus, I trust in you. Would you pay for all my sins, all my sins, past, present, and future? Would you come in my heart? Would you be my Savior?” Thank you, Jesus, for putting your righteousness on my account, making me upright before God. In Jesus’ name I pray.

Wherever you are, maybe online, if you just asked Jesus Christ to be your Savior, if you’re on YouTube there a little below in the description, would you just click on that? “I receive Christ as my Savior.” We’ll send you a free Bible. I want you to have that. Congratulations. We’re so happy for you. Trust in Christ as your Savior.

You’re there this morning and say, “Preacher, I’m not where I ought to be with the Lord. I’m not walking uprightly. I need to get some things right. I backslid. I need to get back to where I ought to be for the Lord.” God spoke to my heart. “I’d like to be able to claim that promise, walking uprightly.” Oh, there’s a stipulation: “No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.” “Preacher, I need to make some changes. I’d like to get thoroughly right with God.” God spoke to my heart about that this morning. If that’s you, whether it be here or wherever, would you slip your hand up? “Preacher, that’s me. That’s me. I want to get thoroughly right with God.” Oh, God bless you. God bless you. Me too. It’s a daily, sometimes moment-by-moment thing. God bless you. God bless you. Oh, yes. That promise is for you. You’re willing to take the time. The hardest work we ever do is, by the grace of God, keeping yourself right. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. God bless you wherever you are.

I’m going to ask—we’re going to have a word of prayer, and when we get done, we’ll have an invitation. I’m going to ask this for our service here for our people: I’m going to ask, would you just make an altar out of the chair you’re at there? I hope it’s not too much of a problem. Some of you might not be able to do it, but maybe you’d like to get on your knees there where you are, and we’ll just make an altar wherever you are. If you’re online, wherever you are, make an altar there. If you’re in the auditorium, maybe an altar right there. You just turn around if you can’t get on your knees. If you can’t do that, just everywhere you sit, let’s just spend some time with the Lord during the invitation. Our instruments of play will pray, and you spend some time right there where you are.

Father, I’m not worthy, Lord, of this promise. I am so far from being worthy of it, but thank you through your Son. You give us this. Lord, thank you for your Word. You promise us this. Help us, Lord, to rest and to rely and trust and pray because of this promise. Bless your people during this time. And Father, we thank you for what you do. And Lord, it’s in Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.

But you just spend some time this week thinking about that promise right there: “No good thing.” “No good thing.” “Will he withhold.” And then that “walk uprightly” there. It’s a great, great promise. God wants us to claim it. And I hope it would just spend some time in that promise. It’s a great one, and it’ll carry you through, amen. And so keep that promise in your heart and your mind. Just praise the Lord, we’re able to meet back.

And then tonight, I appreciate young people seeking the Lord. That’s great. I apologize; I didn’t see some earlier. I wouldn’t have continued on, but it’s a blessing to be able to meet together. And it may be slow, but let’s just keep with this saying: If you can, if you’re able to be in the house of the Lord, and those are online, stay faithful. Stay faithful. It won’t be long. We’ll be back together, and I’m excited about it. It’s just a blessing to see everyone. I love just seeing people come in this morning. Everybody had smiles and joy and happiness, and I love it. That’s a big part of church—just a fellowship family, and what a key part it is. It really, really is. We’re just thrilled everybody’s here. Those online, let’s stay faithful for the Lord during this time.

Tell you what, I was thanking—I got this bag of candy, the one that I was holding. I put it in my pocket, amen. Ms. Stacy’s got her hand up already. I’m going to pour the candy out on the table here. You can stop by and get you something on the way out if you’d like to get one of those, amen. Now, don’t sneeze right in front of it so nobody else will get it. Get it all. Now, don’t do that. That’s not right. But we’re thrilled you’re here. It’s been tempting me too long anyway. Amen. It’s going to get the better of me. But I’ll pour that out on that table there, and thrilled you’re here today. God bless you. Love you. Good to see everybody back together. What a blessing that is, and we’re just glad about that. It’s awesome. Brother Mike Arnold, would you dismiss us in a word of prayer, and we’ll head home?

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